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Eskom meter scam in NC & FS─── NOMAQHAWE MTEBELE 10:48 Sat, 10 Feb 2018
Bloemfontein - Eskom warns customers to be aware of a meter scam where people demand money to test and replace faulty meters in the Free State and Northern Cape.
This follows after the power supplier received numerous reports of customers who had been defrauded of up to R2500 since December last year.
The scammers’ modus operandi would be to call Eskom customers and tell them that they will be visiting to test meters, demanding that customers deposit an up-front payment into a bank account only to disappear thereafter.
According to Eskom’s Stefanie Jansen van Rensburg, payments for services must always be made directly to Eskom and never to a contractor.
“So people are reminded not to pay cash or any other monies into an account that is not the official Eskom account as billed,” said Jansen van Rensburg.
“Eskom will also never ask you to pay in advance for such a service,” she continued.
Customers may call the contact centre on 08600 ESKOM/37566 to alert the supplier.
Eskom’s Stefanie Jansen van Rensburg:
